Process

You can go for even more concise syntax with Process class.

Instantiate

const p = ao.p(pid)

const { p, pid } = await ao.deploy({ data, tags, src, fills })

msg

The first argument is Action, the second argument is Tags, and the third argument is the rest of the options.

const { mid, res, out, err } = await p.msg(
  "Action", 
  { Tag1: "value1", Tag2: "value2" }, 
  { get: true, check: { TagA: "valueA" }, jwk }
)

The default third argument is { get: false } to return the text Data.

const { mid, out } = await p.msg("Action", { Tag1: "value1", Tag2: "value2" })

The third parameter defaults to get if it's not an object.

const { mid, out } = await p.msg("Action", { Tag1: "value1" }, "TagA")

is equivalent to

const { mid, out } = await p.msg("Action", { Tag1: "value1" }, "TagA")

You can omit the second argument if there is no tag to pass to.

const { mid, out } = await p.msg("Action", { check: "success!" }}

m

You can only get out with m. This is the most extreme form.

const out = await p.m("Action", { Tag1: "value1", Tag2: "value2" })

This is a quite common pattern during testing. Doing the same with aoconnect requires an enormous amount of code, especially if it involves async/await receive().

const { p } = await ao.deploy({ tags, src_data, fills })
const out = await p.m("Action", { Tag1: "value1", Tag2: "value2" }) // get Data
assert.equal(out, EXPECTED_JSON)

dry

const { mid, out } = await p.dry("Action", { Tag1: "value1", Tag2: "value2" })

d

const out = await p.d("Action", { Tag1: "value1", Tag2: "value2" })

res

const { err, res, out } = await p.res({ mid, check, get })

r

const out = await p.r({ mid, check, get })

v

v is a shortcut for var to get a Lua variable with dryrun.

const { p } = await ao.deploy({
  src_data: `Table = { String = "Hello", Array = { "str", 3, true } }`,
})
const table = await p.v("Table") // { String: "Hello", Array: [ "str", 3, true ] }

To disable the auto JSON conversion and enable pretty print, use the 2nd and the 3rd arguments.

const table = await p.v("Table", false, true)